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I so enjoyed getting back into the studio and doing these large drawings based on 50’s images from the Courier archives

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Trial hangings

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Progress Cow Sculpture fairly stable

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Detail from etching showing sugar lift marks

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Detail from etching showing sugar lift marks

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Using Pictish Beast armature

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This one was underwiped

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My first attempt at a wee animation. Didn’t do enough drawings forgot to number them wonky I phone photos but kind of OK ! X

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Giotto Dudes don’t notice cow escaping from cart 

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Giotto Dudes don’t notice cow escaping from cart 

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Drawing Portrait Class

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just keep at it

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I met the North Kelvin Meadow committee yesterday to talk through the Sally the Cow Opera idea - they were really enthusiastic and very happy for the performance to take place in March next year. Concerns were no damage to trees etc, COVID compliance and noise. I confirmed that this was not designed to be for an audience but to be filmed so may involve 2/3 runs through. No microphones or amplifiers - just singing. So final writing of the opera at Xmas with my daughter is the mission

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First of 7 paintings a la Giotto of Sally the Cow - will be arranged as a church window/fresco a la Assisi

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First of 7 paintings a la Giotto of Sally the Cow - will be arranged as a church window/fresco a la Assisi

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Etching plate after spit bite and sugar lift - not printed because of no access 

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Etching plate after spit bite and sugar lift - not printed because of no access 

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Large banner painting done in 2nd year but for exhibitions not course work

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Large banner painting done in 2nd year but for exhibitions not course work

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Natural space in woods - hang scenery from trees 

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Natural space in woods - hang scenery from trees 

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Opera - Performance - great idea from Graham of doing in North Kelvin Meadows Possibly use panels from 2nd year as scenery - mart, etc. Skull and Pictish Beast body as “Sally” Ellen can sing - write libretto - big challenge - plummeting but through floor but more scope outside !!!
Jimmy Nairn photographer as “narrator”
Other parts ? Judge Farmer People in shops ?
Need to take images

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Like the idea of framing Cow Story as church windows/ frescos - sequence/story but melange of other symbolism - martyrdom, sacrifice, blame, sin - Alternative ending ? Cow Heaven ?

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Cow coming through ceiling - collage with old Inverness Couriers 1956

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Cow coming through ceiling - collage with old Inverness Couriers 1956

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Cow peering out from truck off to market 

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Cow peering out from truck off to market 

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Series of paintings - Giottos frescos Churchbof St Francis Assisi 

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Series of paintings - Giottos frescos Churchbof St Francis Assisi 

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Neo Rauch

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Neo Rauch - a painting should be more intelligent than its painter

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Good discussion of nature to abstract paintings - he liked the jawbone one in particular - textures and contrasting areas

Link between Dutch Elm and COVID idea - exploring with etching plate - felt it was valid and useful analogy

Sally the Cow - discussion about performance ideas - North Kelvin Woods and Community involvement ! Also series of paintings - panels like Giotto/ Frescos - series of the story which can be viewed independently but also may not be totally patent in terms of meaning

Ordered 8 Stretchers 70 cm square -

Artists to look at :- Neo Rausch

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Drawing Club - Feet - a bit awkward if you are an oldie !!!

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Drawing Club - Feet - a bit awkward if you are an oldie !!!

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Maia, ( Photography) Niamh, Francisco (Sculpture)

The other participants were much more wedded to combining their dissertation subjects to their practical ideas whereas as ever, I was all over the place with three areas of exploration - nature into abstract, Dutch elm and Sally the Cow. Nice comments on the work but I feel a little separated as clearly ideas and art criticism were to the forefront with the others - grief, religion and identity being their subjects

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Maybe it does look better on its side !!

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Maybe it does look better on its side !!

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Yes I know it’s bats - but I’d like to do a Sally opera as a piece of performance - write sung words - stage set - drama - collect assets from now on

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Yes I know it’s bats - but I’d like to do a Sally opera as a piece of performance - write sung words - stage set - drama - collect assets from now on

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Finished ?

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Most discussion was around the Buttercup picture and speculation on the meaning of the figures, patterns, positions, colours and why coffee/the brown wash. People wanted to know the story behind it and therefore the sensibility of producing other related works is clear to me. The landscapes seemed to be less thought provoking but again the complexity and colours of the purple grounded work brought more reaction and questions. I was asked about why so many different types of work - plate spinning, fear of not trying everything some reasons. Hanneline thought I should just embrace this energy and “go wild”. Reference to Monster Marvin Gaye Spartacus Chetwynd and the story telling

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Hanneline suggested writing to kick start other works

I read about the goats of Llandudno - disappearance of COVID panicked Homo sapiens and their fossil fuelled moving monsters meant freedom to roam for capricorns

Some 70 years ago, a bovine took to the streets of Inverness. Her name, Sally, gave no indication that she was in fact of the strain houdinous meanous - her mission to wreck havoc and revenge while escaping from lorry, mart, mankind and her fate.

Steam escaped from her nostrils as she, like her goat companions, headed down cobbles only meant for leather treads, at a pace to deter captors. A man with a camera saw, snapped and departed. Sally stormed on, up steps to a tailors shop where cow customers were neither welcomed nor catered for.

However the aged buildings feeble floorboards could not accommodate her either and crash crush wail - through them she went down to a new fate below.

One may have thought the Buttercup Dairy was a good choice of plummeting place, but alas the premises, the staff and the spurting water from a smashed tap did not make her welcome. Chaos, shrieks and many a fluttering heart left her to make the only decision - go.

She charged on through streets but could tell her time was short. Cornered, deemed too wild for capture, shot - the end ?

No - for who was to blame for Sally’s rampage became a cause celebre in legal annals. Of course it was Sally and her wish for freedom but even in death she was stripped of  ownership of her fame.

My only advice to the goats - don’t climb stairs and hide when the humans return

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Idea was to use imagery of beetle marks using charcoal on a pre printed screen print - sort of worked but need a lot more practice and print base !!!

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Screen print at home - learnt a lot didn’t produce much 

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Screen print at home - learnt a lot didn’t produce much 

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Wrestling with this one - perhaps I should turn this upside down too !!!

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Like it much better upside down !

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Have booked a home screen printing kit for Monday !! It will be interesting to see what can be done without being in the workshops

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Tutorial - Notes

Artists to research

Lucy MacKenzie
Sigmar Polke
David Salle - meaningless paintings - in theory
Beatriz Millhaze - textile forms

General advice - push the Buttercup picture to somehow capture the expressiveness of the big abstracts. Danger of big abstracts being “all expression” but not ultimately going anywhere - make use of the archive !

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Planning some etchings based on these marks and the image of the elm beetle. It’s not the beetle that kills the trees but a fungus carried by the beetle. The 1st beetle burrows in the wider channel and lays eggs - beetlets hatch and borrow outwards making the amazing rays outward from the first channel - so they are narrow to begin with

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https://images.app.goo.gl/62jW4Ch1bZHuv9pe8

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Watched “Cool School “ about the Ferus Gallery Los Angeles for FACS - “ Art offers the possibility of love with strangers” Walter Hopps

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This drawing of bark markings is beautiful, without the photo I wouldn't have know where this fantastically organic forms came from - are you planning to do more on this one?  

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This drawing of bark markings is beautiful, without the photo I wouldn't have know where this fantastically organic forms came from - are you planning to do more on this one?  

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Dutch elm drawing - possible etching

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Painting 1m x1m - to be completed